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This article is not considered a psychological operation. It reports on the accidental destruction of a 1,000-year-old Native American intaglio in Arizona's Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge by a Department of Homeland Security contractor building a new section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The site, culturally significant to the Tohono O’odham Nation and compared in importance to the Nazca lines, was damaged despite prior efforts to mark and protect it, prompting ongoing coordination between federal agencies and tribal authorities.